♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> a rock music group lead singer, jim morrison is dead. he was 27.aid to be an overdose of drugs. >> janice joplin was found dead presumably of an overdose. >>> jim morrison the leads singer of the doors, he was 27, is dead. >> the early years in music was sad, because you lose people and you lose the beatles. >> this small gatherings are only the beginning. the event is so momentous that historians may one day view it as a landmark in the decline of the british empire -- the beatles are breaking up. >> it was like a death for a lot of people. rock and roll as we understood in the 1960s was no longer with us. >> will there will never be another beatles, never. >> you know, i never thought that one day i would be here with no drummers or oband. you might know i lost my old band, or i left it. ♪ imagine there's no heaven ♪ no hell below us >> would be that good. >> i don't no longer have, oh the beatles need an album. you and paul are going to write 20 songs tomorrow or something like that the. i just write whenever i feel like it. >> you know, you hav

you can almost see jim morrison jumping out of the grave. you are a loser.t a special episode of trl screaming behind carson daly. >> jimmy: how cool is that? >> it was a special madonna -- i was an established tv executive at this time. but i'm like, oh, madonna! oh, my god! so bad. >> jimmy: we want to show a a clip of "then and now." here's andy cohen and willy geist in andy cohen's "then and now." take a look at this. >> you were a big wrestle mania fan. >> i was at the first wrestle mania. i was there. liberace was there. >> excuse me? >> mr. t was there. >> hold on, back up. liberace was there? >> liberace was -- >> what she was doing there? >> liberace was an honorary referee. they were trying to bring star power. >> that's a show. >> big. it was big. the guy sitting next to my mom, his jeans came up and there was a knife in his boot. and my mom said, what's the knife for? and he said, knife's for if anybody who messes with the hulkster. he was there to defend hulk hogan at wrestle mania with his knife. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: "then and now.

jim morrison, the lead singer for the doors, a rock music grup, is dead.. >> the early years in music was sad, because you lose people and you lose the beatles. >> this small gatherings are only the beginning. the event is so momentous that historians may one day view it as a landmark in the decline of the british empire -- the beatles are breaking up. >> it was like a death for a lot of people. rock and roll as we understood in the 1960s was no longer with us. >> there will never be another beatles, never. >> i wonder what i'm doing here with no drummers. i lost my old band, or i left it. ♪ imagine there's no heaven ♪ it's easy if you try >> for so long you waited for the in beatles album to see where music was going. and we just hoped the music they would come up individually would be that good. >> i no longer have to -- oh, the beatles need an album. i just write when i feel like it. >> you know, you have even been called the dragon lady who brought the beatles apart. >> please give her credit for all the nice music that george made and ringo made and p

on this version because like, like jim morrison once said the future is uncertain but people tend to think of the answer but seem as the new ecopy. epoque come and go. they last 10 million years or so, there are fluctuations in earth history which are often accompanied by mass extinction. there's only been, if you go to the left there have only been for eons. eons are major transition and planetary history so there was the etienne back when everything was hellacious, it was impacting and nothing could live, you wouldn't will have wanted to live. the archean which is marked by the origin of life, this boundary more or less and then the protozoan which is when microbes took over the planet, when that oxygen catastrophe happened and chemically took over the planet and finally there's the fence result is where we live now which is when life became complex. and we're still in the fence result but i what i wonder is it this transition is happening now with cognitive life becoming part of the workings of the planet potentially and beyond the boundary. is it a significant not just a fluctuat

jimmy and jim died -- janis joplin, jimi hendrix and jimmy morrison died in 1971. there were countless lesser-known figures who theirion became -- occupational opportunities blunted, stillborn. some of the people never recovered. recover.ds didn't their damaged relationships reknitted. aspects lots of serious to the counterculture. possibilityial , some of them seemingly reach to the stars, right? a millennial like manner. in some ways, it is an apocalyptic reality which helps of howen the hopes transformative this might have been. i talk about this at the near close of the book. we haveuter revolution experienced over the last few decades. the pc revolution. silicon valley. a lot of that is, believe it or not, connected with the counterculture. tote a bit is pertaining whom belongs to those pursuits. to reach ahe attempt different kind of consciousness in different ways and, just as the u.s. intelligence agencies and u.s. military help to sp counterculture through drug tests and help to spread the gospel about -- the military is heavily involved in embracing the c